Media Kit

Esker Foundation is proud to present the solo exhibition Divine of Form, Formed in the Divine (Medicine for a Nightmare) by Toronto-based artist Nep Sidhu.Opening reception: Friday 27 September, 6-10pm, all welcome.

Esker Foundation is pleased to present the Canadian Premiere of the solo exhibition Time Carriers and special performance To Name An Other by New York-based artist Jeffrey Gibson.Opening reception: Friday 27 September, 6-10pm, all welcome.

Esker Foundation is a unique 15,000 sq. ft. gallery space in Calgary that connects the public to contemporary art through relevant, accessible, and educational exhibitions, publications, and programs for all ages from babies to seniors. Read more in the press release below.

Curated by: asinnajaq
A project of Isuma in partnership with Vtape, Toronto.
CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK, a project of Isuma in partnership with Vtape, Toronto, is the first large-scale tour of Igloolik Inuit video art from the Isuma and Arnait Women’s Video Collective. It celebrates a young cinematic tradition that has its own distinct voice and worldview, its own language, culture and traditions, history and stories, philosophy of education and knowledge sharing, relationship to land, conception of gender and social structures, relationship to space and time, and vision for the future. (high res images below)
Opening reception: Friday 31 May, 6-10pm, all welcome 1 June - 30 August, 2019

Occlusion Field is a singular moment in time and space made of the stuff of trans defense mechanism: tattoos, liquid gender concepts, and hormonally transforming surfaces that come together to speak to an idiosyncrasy, a gestalt, a whole that transcends its constitutive parts. (high res images below)
Upcoming in the Project Space:

KablusiakQiniqtuaq
29 July - 20 October

Qiniqtuaq (searching/looking) invites viewers to peer through a multi-eyed ghost sheet to witness a looping projection of a video collage screened in front of a piece of oil-stained cardboard. Qiniqtuaq is meant to evoke a dream-like state imaging a hypothetical place and time; a representation of what is felt but not known. Qiniqtuaq invites a presence of nostalgia, spectatorship, and diaspora. (high res images below)